Hairy vs Difficult - What's the difference?
hairy | difficult | Synonyms |
Of a person, having a lot of hair on the body.
Of an animal, having a lot of fur.
Of a body part other than the head, having hair growing from it.
Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.
Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
* 2008 , Daniel Goleman, Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama (ISBN 0307483762), page 199:
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, title= Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
Hairy is a synonym of difficult.
As adjectives the difference between hairy and difficult
is that hairy is of a person, having a lot of hair on the body while difficult is hard, not easy, requiring much effort.As a verb difficult is
(obsolete|transitive) to make difficult; to impede; to perplex.hairy
English
Adjective
(er)- a hairy man
- hairy mammoth
- She is a great admirer of hairy chests.
- ''It’s a hairy problem, and will probably take several weeks to sort out.
Synonyms
* (person) furry, hirsute * (animal) furry * (body part) furry, hirsuteAntonyms
* bald * hairlessDerived terms
* hairily * hairinessSee also
* dasypygaldifficult
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone.
- In adults, the same kind of anger has been studied in people trying to solve a very difficult math problem. Though the tough math problem is very frustrating, there is an active attempt to solve the problem and meet the goal.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.